Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [prep] year " in BNC.

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1	‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’
2	‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something .
3	It , too , must have been there for years .
4	It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body .
5	They must have been there for years . ’
6	If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ?
7	‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place .
8	Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years .
9	I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface .
10	I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages .
11	We 've been pally for years Sadie .
12	It seems as though we have been away for years .
13	They are there ; they have been there for years .
14	Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years .
15	that have been there for years have n't they ?
16	No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding .
17	They have been there over years and many of the established patterns of reaction are demanding to be looked at .
18	No one 's been here for years . ’
19	There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all .

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